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| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate Kana813 - it seems like a lot of money, but when you consider that I plan to do a shootout with the Memory Player and expect to win, maybe not....it's that good.Steve N. | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate I run my SB3 with a Pace-Car reclocker:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/frPace-Car.htmlWith this device, it is not necessary to improve the output from the SB3, or the power supply. There is very little room inside to mod the SB3 anyway. No way to fi... | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC Audiooracle - I welcome a shootout. I already have a request from Arnis, who heard some of my earlier offerings at CES in January. I respect his opinion, so he may be the first to do this comparison.Steve N. | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC Audiooracle - I'm sure there are some aspects of the memory player that are novel, however you may not know that I also have a long list of accomplishments over 30-years of engineering design and management. I was a design deam lead on the Pentium... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate I too have strangeness with the SB3. I run the thing all night into my Pace-Car reclocker and DAC's so they can break-in. Often, in the morning it appears to be playing at the laptop, but there is no activity at the SB3 and no music. I have to sto... | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC "it would be great if Steve from Empirical Audio would participate in the shootout. Steve?..."I will not be attending RMAF this year, or I would definitely do this. With two shows a year and a 33 customer backlog, I cannot afford a week of travel ... | |
| Is there such a DAC? The only DAC's I'm aware of that meet most of these criteria is the Northstar 192 DAC and the Northstar Extremo. They both have discrete output stages. Very smooth on vocals and great layering once they are modded by EA. The 192 needs a few mods a... | |
| Wireless USB I enabled Icron to do the testing and development of the new firware for audio streaming. I have the first prototype and have tested the Wi-Ranger and it does work with streaming audio and at 24/96. However, there are two issues:1) it adds signifi... | |
| iPod to a Benchmark Media DAC-1 D/A Dbk wrote:"Why is direct I2S connection better than s/pdif?"Because the S/PDIF encoding and decoding adds more jitter. Using I2S, you can avoid encoding the clock and data into a single signal. The optimum solution is to locate the master clock at... | |
| VISTA users. M-Audio Transit drivers do not support Vista yet. Keep an eye on the m-audio website for the new drivers. | |
| iPod to a Benchmark Media DAC-1 D/A MSB has a docking station for iPod that outputs S/PDIF. Not as good as I2S IMO, but digital anyway. I believe it's around $2K. | |
| Is iPod Digital Output Possible? Bwhite - The digital iPod docking station is called the iRod, for Hot-rodded iPod. It will essentially replace all of the analog circuits in the iPod with external circuits of my own design. I will bring-out the I2S interface on the docking connec... | |
| Is iPod Digital Output Possible? The Escient does not talk about modifying the iPod. This is required to bring-out a digital signal.The only ones doing this to my knowledge are myself and MSB.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| would usb sound better than a sound card The simplest USB DAC, and a great value is the Benchmark DAC-1 USB. If you want to use your own DAC, then the Off-Ramp Turbo 2 does the same thing.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer | |
| Help with PC Audio Quality vs. CD This is like asking CD quality versus Vinyl quality. The result depends entirely on the devices used. It can go either way. In this case, the SB3, which is very good and easy to use probably has higher jitter than the Proceed transport, or at leas... |